The U.S. military has launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.
More concretely: every president since forever has supported the creep of executive power, in particular Genocide Joe and Drone-bama. They allowed this shit to happen.
I don’t blame Presidents acting in their own best interests. The legislative and judicial branch was to be the check on their power. Congress has failed in that role since the 60s.
Right? It’s a super brain dead take. The presidential oath and things like the emoluments clause (i know, it’s quaint of me to think that ever mattered) explicitly ‘bind’ a President to act in the country’s interests.
It’s just mask-off Americanism though, we can finally admit the true core belief of our culture: nothing is immoral in the pursuit of profit.
They’re your fucking elected representatives, not the fucking king - they’re supposed to work for you not “act in their own best interests” and you sure as hell have a fucking DUTY to blame them for breaking their legal, ethical and moral duty to use the power entrusted to them by Americans in the interest of Americans, not for themselves.
God damn, fucking American bootlicking brainwashed muppets looking up to “their betters” even harder than the equivalent sort on this side of the Atlantic. At least we Europeans have a fucking good excuse for all those “looking up to your betters” muppets, having had Monarchies for most of the last 2 thousand years which only ended in the late 19th and early 20th century, whilst Americans have had a supposedly “of the people for the people” democracy since the 18th century.
No wonder the US is even more fucked up than Europe with all the instinctive pulling down of their pants and shouting “give it to me more, big daddy” (and not even in a good, kinky way) whenever some POLITICAL CELEBRITY who is supposed to be an elected representative does whatever is in their own best interest.
But they do suck. Two things can be true at once!
More concretely: every president since forever has supported the creep of executive power, in particular Genocide Joe and Drone-bama. They allowed this shit to happen.
Yup. Harris would be carrying out fewer international drone strikes, but it definitely wouldn’t be zero.
I don’t blame Presidents acting in their own best interests. The legislative and judicial branch was to be the check on their power. Congress has failed in that role since the 60s.
Wtf of course I blame Presidents for acting in their own best interests when those interests are fascist!
Right? It’s a super brain dead take. The presidential oath and things like the emoluments clause (i know, it’s quaint of me to think that ever mattered) explicitly ‘bind’ a President to act in the country’s interests.
It’s just mask-off Americanism though, we can finally admit the true core belief of our culture: nothing is immoral in the pursuit of profit.
They’re your fucking elected representatives, not the fucking king - they’re supposed to work for you not “act in their own best interests” and you sure as hell have a fucking D U T Y to blame them for breaking their legal, ethical and moral duty to use the power entrusted to them by Americans in the interest of Americans, not for themselves.
God damn, fucking American bootlicking brainwashed muppets looking up to “their betters” even harder than the equivalent sort on this side of the Atlantic. At least we Europeans have a fucking good excuse for all those “looking up to your betters” muppets, having had Monarchies for most of the last 2 thousand years which only ended in the late 19th and early 20th century, whilst Americans have had a supposedly “of the people for the people” democracy since the 18th century.
No wonder the US is even more fucked up than Europe with all the instinctive pulling down of their pants and shouting “give it to me more, big daddy” (and not even in a good, kinky way) whenever some POLITICAL CELEBRITY who is supposed to be an elected representative does whatever is in their own best interest.